From the Czech Republic to Poland, from Norway to France, Germany used blitzkrieg warfare against all the countries attacked, with a small number of mechanized land forces forming arrows, and then with the air force, all tanks, armored vehicles, and self-propelled guns were dispatched together to form a shock wave that was difficult to resist at that time. It feels more like the massive and fierce cavalry of the northern nomads, and then the motorized infantry and foot infantry expand their success. The Germans suddenly bombarded the airports, railway junctions, heavy troop concentration areas and cities of France, the Netherlands, Belgium and Luxembourg, and then on the more than 300-kilometer front between the North Sea and the Maginot Line, the German ground forces launched a large-scale attack on the Netherlands, Belgium and Luxembourg. The tanks and artillery of the French army were not inferior to the German mustaches in terms of level and number, but they still used the backward tactics of following the infantry. In addition, the number of French fighters was relatively small, and they were quickly destroyed by the German sneak attack, and the French army quickly lost the battle without air supremacy, and France did not have much strategic depth, so Wei Gang's table was full of teacups.

Soon after the end of the French campaign, due to the foresight of the imminent outbreak of war against Russia, Poland's diplomatic relations with the Red Russia, which had carved up its territory with Germany, changed, and the Anglo-French forces that retreated to Britain felt that the German strong men were deeply malicious towards some parts of themselves, so they wanted to draw everything together to form a unified anti-German front, Britain put pressure on the Polish government-in-exile, and was extremely dissatisfied with the "two enemies" policy of Retz and Becquerel at home and abroad with Germany and Red Russia at the same time, Sikorski was forced to reconcile with Red Russia, and to establish a Polish army on the territory of the latter. Poland was also divided over the word, and after the mustachioed German army invaded Red Russia two years later on June 22, Sikorski declared his support for Red Russia, and diplomatic relations between the two countries were temporarily restored. By the following year, however, relations between Russia and Poland had deteriorated again, and they were divided into two factions: the pro-Western Anders and General Sikorsky factions and the opposition.

Germany found the bodies of Polish officers massacred by the Red Russians in Katyn, and the Polish government-in-exile demanded an investigation, and the Red Russians announced the severance of diplomatic relations under the pretext that Poland was "in the same league with Germany", and continued to cultivate Polish troops in the territory of the Red Russians, which gradually grew to more than 100,000 people, called the "Polish People's Army". Later, the Polish underground rebel army, the Polish Home Army, carried out an anti-German campaign known as the "Warsaw Uprising", but the Red Russian army, which was very close, was stopped by the resistance of the German army, and the Polish underground rebel army did not contact the Red Russian army in advance and refused the assistance of the Red Russian army, and shot and killed members of the Peasants' and Workers' Party. Later, when the Russians occupied Warsaw, they arrested other anti-Russian or ideologically hostile Poles, propped up their Peasants' and Workers' regimes, and after the Polish government-in-exile in London, they split again into those who advocated negotiating with the Red Russia and the Polish National Liberation Council and their opponents. After the war, Poland was ruled by the Communist Party of the United Workers' Party of Poland for a long time, and the "Curzon Line" was used as the Russian-Polish border, and the Polish government in exile in the West did not return to its homeland until after the drastic changes in Eastern Europe.

To sum up, the degree of secondary disease of the Polish people is much higher than that of other Central and Eastern European peoples, and can even be compared with some stick peoples of the Far East. However, for the German army, with the help of the Chinese in their hands, a large number of advanced equipment and thousands of officers trained in China and with experience in cooperative operations, almost let the British and French troops be beaten in a disorderly manner, only shouting for Sam's brother to help. It's a pity that there are a lot of Germans among the cowboys, and other descendants such as Irish and Italian are also beating in their hearts. Public opinion is like this, and the consortium does not think that it is wise to resist Germany at this time, so Mr. President in a wheelchair is powerless to carry out his strategy of crossing the world.

The Seventh Panzer Corps visited the Train Museum in Compiègne, and Brother Rommel said, "Behind us is the shame of Germany, and in front of us is Paris." I ordered the 7th Panzer Corps to march to Paris. All at once, the morale of more than 20,000 German officers and soldiers of the Seventh Army was ignited, and the Germans, who had always been bread-headed sausages, got into the tank with bread sausages sent by the cooking class. The entire Weygang defense line did not hold out for even a day before it was trampled by the frenzied German tank crews.

On June 10, the French government withdrew from Paris and moved to Tours. On the same day, Italy took advantage of the fire and declared war on France. On the 13th, Paris was declared an undefended city. On the 14th, when the French government moved to Bordeaux, the Germans occupied Paris without firing a single shot. On the very day of the German occupation of Paris, the left flank of the German Army Group A had advanced to the flank of the Maginot Line, "because of this useless line, after all, there were hundreds of thousands of French troops who had not surrendered or been annihilated." Sitara demanded that Manstein cooperate with Army Group C to completely eliminate the French forces there. According to Operational Order No. 15 issued by Sitara, Army Group C, which had been carrying out the task of attracting the attention of the French army in front of the Maginot Line, immediately chose the weak point of the defenders of the Maginot Line, that is, the junction of the two fortified areas of Alsace and Lorraine, to attack. The A and C armies were flanked in front and rear, and the Maginot Line was quickly broken through. On 17 June, Army Group C advanced to the Marne-Rhine Canal, Army Group A occupied Verdun, and the French army of 500,000 was surrounded in Alsace and southern Lorraine, and all but a few fled to Switzerland and the rest were annihilated. On the 18th, the French government announced the cessation of resistance, thus officially ending the military resistance in mainland France.

A French writer, Jean-Paul 61 Sartre, claimed that the French, especially French writers and artists, had only two choices during the occupation of the Workers' Party: to cooperate, or to resist. Naturally, he chose the latter: "Our job is to tell all the French that we will not be ruled by the Germans. ”

In fact, although Sartre was not a "traitor", his performance during the occupation was far less heroic and generous than he expressed immediately after the war. Alan 61 AlanRiding's description of the French intelligentsia during the fall was neither a laissez-faire nor a moral judge, and he subsumed Sartre on the side of the resistance. Sartre's plays, such as Huis Clos, are considered by many admirers to be an implicit expression of the anti-Workers' Party (and Sartre's own hindsight certainly thinks so). But the plays passed the German censorship without difficulty, and the German officers watched the premiere with pleasure and even attended the party after the performance.

In any case, Sartre was more honest in an interview more than thirty years later, recalling: "In the first eighteen years we were afraid of death, of suffering, of the cause of which made us sick. That is, a disgusting France – corrupt, incompetent, racist, anti-Semitic, rich rulers who only think about the rich, and no one wants to die for this country. The glory of France died from that moment. ”

The story heard in the Netherlands was similar to the spirit of Sartre's post-war statement: people were either "good" or "bad", resisting or falling overboard. Needless to say, all of our teachers, relatives, family friends were "good people", and we also knew which shops not to go to, because the owners were all on the side of the "bad guys" (there was a woman selling candy in a cigarette shop at the end of the street where I lived, and it was rumored that she was "better off with a German soldier"; For this reason people did not buy her sweets, and this boycott even lasted for twenty years, until Germany withdrew from the Netherlands). At that time, we also liked to read boys' adventure stories, which were about the heroic deeds of war heroes. It took us decades to discover that these are all illusions, that the categories of good and bad, right and wrong are far from simple, that most people are neither particularly good nor surprisingly bad, and that heroes and villains are in the minority. The situation in France is more complicated. Unlike the more moderate Netherlands, France has been torn apart by liberal republicans and radical anti-Semitic and anti-democratic movements since the nineteenth century. The Netherlands remained neutral in 1914 and lost less than a million men in the bloodied World War I. The Germans did not use flattery, promotion, etc. to seduce the Dutch cultural elite during the occupation, after all, Amsterdam is not Paris.

Most of the stories in Ryding's new book, AndtheShowWentOn: CulturalLifeinNazi-OccupiedParis, are not new, but he skillfully places them in a broader historical context that goes beyond the period of the Fall. It would be misleading to tell it from 1940. As Pierre Drieu LaRochelle, a German-supported French writer and Workers' Party collaborator, rightly observed in December of the 17th year of the First Century: "The war has not changed anything...... The French are more divided than ever. Ledeen succinctly describes the gloomy picture of those divisions. In 1894, the Dreyfus affair ignited the fuse. Soon the truth was revealed, but the French government insisted on not admitting its mistake until Dreyfus was rehabilitated in 1906). When the Jewish liberal Leon 61 Bloom became prime minister in 1936, it aroused extreme hatred among the anti-Jewish right. Charles Maurras, the founder of the right-wing "Operation France", clamored for his death or he would "lead us to a sinful war against our Italian comrades." The conservative Catholic writer Marcel Jouhandeau (who later became a regular at the wartime salons of the 61 Cocteau) wrote: "Monsieur Bloom is not one of us...... No European will know what an Asian is thinking. ”

In the years leading up to the occupation, the Germans had begun to cultivate French public figures with similar views. Robert Brasillach, a journalist in the fifteenth year of the Alpha 61, was invited to a meeting of the Workers' Party in Nuremberg, where he admired the beating of drums, flying flags, and strides, and even compared it to the Eucharist. Maybe you have to be a French conservative reactionary to see Jesus in the Führer. Otto Abetz, who later became the plenipotentiary of Germany in France during the war, had already paid French editors to write articles in support of Germany long before the war.

In fact, anti-Semitism in France did not need the Germans to add firewood to it. Brassilach had already begun editing Jesuispartout, an anti-Semitic newspaper in support of the Workers' Party, in the 15th year of the Workers' Party, and continued to use it to denounce Jews and the Peasants' and Workers' Party during the occupation. In the same year, Céline published a pamphlet, Bagatellespourunmassacre, complaining that the "wormy" Jewish forces had "broken the Franco-German alliance." His publisher was the mainstream Taisha de Noel Publishing House, and the pamphlet sold 80,000 copies.

Germany occupied France, but France did not resist much, everything was as logical, but the fat man Qiu who looked similar to the boxer dog Bafen would not kneel and lick his mustache so easily, most of the German army was only stationed and cleared and other security tasks, but the Luftwaffe had to immediately enter another war, a fierce battle of strength on both sides of the Dover Strait. But Goering said that there was no pressure, because a friend with great powers would send a powerful enough air lord to teach the British how to be a new man in minutes.